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iv rewatched that embellishment penalty about 50 times now..with benefit of slowmo…I see how he did make it look worse..100% over did it to get a call.
so im good with it.. carry on
~sensReally? I haven’t really watched with any great scrutiny – but I heard people say Rodrigues peeked and saw him coming, but I never saw that in the few replays I had seen. I think any team and fanbase has the objective right to feel a tad bent over by that call. In that instance he deserved the boarding call and it was borderline to a 5 minute. The fact that Florida didn’t get the man advantage there is probably what spiralled the game because the refs just decided to let them get away with attempted murder on Holmberg 2-3 times after that.
Honestly looking at that draft, I think in a redraft, Knies goes in the top 3 easily.
~fakepartofme
I was thinking that initially as well, but it’s a decent crop of guys in the mix – like Johnston, Hughes, Guenther, Johnson, Eklund, Stankoven, Clarke, Power, Moser . . .but yeah, maybe. I sort of lump Knies in with Guenther in terms of my expectations, and I’d probably have said Johnston, Hughes, Guenther were at the top, where Knies/Guenther is a pick’em? Especially if Knies keep progressing the way he has been.
Two huge factors this year are Knies and Pacioretty. They are both big strong bodies going to the net, creating room, causing havoc, taking the body, and generally drawing attention to the net front which is actually creating some space for our skill players. We’ve never had it at this level before. We no longer look like a total perimeter team.
Secondly, we had a 6-3 advantage last night in rush chances. The long pass has worked as an option. The Florida d, while very big, is not the most mobile or effective puck moving group. I actually don’t think it’s as good as last year. I’d take Montour over Seth Jones, and OEL is a better puck mover than what’s on their bottom pair.
~ fifty mission capKnies coming into his own has been a revelation. He’s carrying a lot of the work for that top line while Matthews struggles. I couldn’t agree more about Pacioretty coming in and providing that moxy/grit that is letting Nylander move around. Again . . . you get a big body who wins battles on your line and your skill guys can work off of that. Hyman used to provide it and he wasn’t as skilled nor as big as Knies – but he was good and he brought the effort. You add in Laughton and Lorentz on that 4th line and there’s a lot of good things happening through the lineup. I’d like to see a bit more jam from McMann’s board game because the Domi line needs that.
The only thing I’d say is that probably our worst goals against this playoff have happened while OEL and Benoit run around in their own zone and get lost on net front coverage. There’s always that downside that comes with an affordable but good skating puck mover.
I had to do some googling to jog my memory.
Aaaaah, back when we were in the Norris Divison, and the Norris Division was putrid.
We finished with 70 points that year – tied with the Minnesota North Stars for last place in the division, but we had more wins.
We faced the St. Louis Blues in the first round. They won the division with 79 points!
Wregget was our starter. I had forgotten that Salming was still on the team (holy poop – from 1973-74 to 1988-89!). It was Vaive’s last year on the team.
I was looking at the standings and wondering why teams have such low point totals – until I remembered there were no loser points.
Edmonton won the President’s Trophy that year with 106 points. The only other team to hit 100 was the Flyers.
~ WedgieSo we were talking about it and I was using Hockey-Reference just to click through the years – knowing that we’ve made the 2nd round a tad infrequently since Y2K – and I was positive it couldn’t have been in the 80s because we were so terrible. But . . . there it was.
I mean they made the 2nd round of the playoffs and drafted 7th (Luke Richardson, for inquiring minds). The year before that 70 point season they had 57 (25-48-7 !) points – and made the playoffs and even won the first round, 3-0, in the last of the NHL’s best-of-5 opening rounds.
From the Athletic:
“…this is the first time the Leafs are up 2-0 in a series that isn’t in the first round since 1987!”
~ Atomic WedgieI’ve mentioned that I’ve been watching the playoffs with a few friends, but one is an Oilers fan and the other is a Jets fan – the last time all three of our teams were in the 2nd round together? Also 1987. I was 17, the Jets fan was 20 and the Oilers fan was 10.
I am obviously a Dubas “fan” because his fingerprints are still on this team. He just fell into the trap of a newer GM/every GM issue which is he fell in love with some of his owns players and he wasn’t willing to make the moves until it was too late. I mean he was the one who drafted Knies and Woll, traded for McCabe, I think he brought in Jarnkork but that could have been Tree. He also vehemently stuck to the core 4, especially Styles. Tree deserves a lot of credit here though too, tanev and Carlo are excellent moves and he as well stuck to the core 4.
I think Berube has done excellent and the issue for both Dubas and Tree were believing in Keefe longer than they should have however Tree likely made the pro GM move of keeping him around as an easy “pass” last year.
~ AaronI don’t know. And I mean that literally – not as a passive comment. I just don’t. Keefe’s system was excellent for puck possession but terrible for the risk management associated. Berube’s system is far less risky but also more boring in some ways – and yet in the playoffs Berube’s system scores more, allows less and still looks questionable all too often!
Dubas definitely influenced this lineup, but Rielly was a Burke pick, Nylander was a Nonis pick, Marner and Matthews were Lamiorello picks.
Dubas did bring in, or draft, Holmberg, Robertson, Knies, McMann, Jarnkrok, Kampf, Domi, McCabe, Benoit and Woll.
Treliving in one year has brought in Stolarz, Pacioretty, Carlo, OEL, Tanev, Lorentz and Laughton.
Berube has brought in a bit more of a “get it done” attitude, I think.
Well, hurry up and wash that bad boy, you gotta wear it to work again Friday!
No! Never wash it if you’re on a winning streak! You wear the victory dirt.
This is the way.
I can barely think from the blood loss to my brain. This has been unexpected and exceptional.
I feel like somehow uh . . .Dubas and Keefe . . .like . . .maybe weren’t good?
Keep up the good work, Leafs. Very impressive.
The officiating has officially become a farce. If they don’t smarten up the third is going to be a gong show.
Am I seeing things or does it seem like in puck battles and wall scrums the Panthers seem to kick the skates of the guys they’re battling with . . .like it’s still tripping but it’s just never called.
Or there’s one.
Am I seeing things or does it seem like in puck battles and wall scrums the Panthers seem to kick the skates of the guys they’re battling with . . .like it’s still tripping but it’s just never called.
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